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Mane25 ,

I’m sure it’s growing pains. When it works it seems to be the best way of sorting things, but after a while it seems to give you new, relevant stuff interlaced with really old irrelevant stuff.

doctortofu ,
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Sorting by anything seems pretty buggy now - growing pains, I guess. I tend to sort by “New comments” and from time to time I’ll get threads with zero comments on top of my feed…

I’m sure it’s going to get better with time - right now we’re all basically taking part in an extended load test for Lemmy and federation mechanisms :)

Kolanaki ,
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Every time I have seen a post with 0 comments at the top when sorting by New Comments, the post itself was just posted.

doctortofu ,
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True - which seems to be a bug to me, since that’s what studying by New is supposed to show. I do find all the bugs kinda endearing though - reminds me of the internet of old and the time when reddit wax starting :)

Kolanaki ,
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I don’t think it’s a bug since it even says that sort method is meant to be like an old forum system. All new posts, or posts with new replies, get bumped to the top.

port888 ,

I just use “Top in 6 hours” as a functional substitute for “Hot”.

ebits21 ,
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Supposed to be based on time since posted with some kind of logarithmic decay and rating.

But yeah it seems buggy.

mizu6079 ,
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From my experience, sorting by Hot on Lemmy has always been kinda weird

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